1. Agreement and scope
These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Ioannis Kagiorgis, operating under the brand Drystone Games (“Drystone Games,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). They govern your access to this website and your download, installation, access to, and use of Pirates of the Cyclades, including its content, features, updates, and related services (collectively, the “Services”).
By using the Services, you confirm that you have read and agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Services. If you are not legally able to enter into this agreement, a parent or legal guardian must review and accept these Terms for you and is responsible for your use of the Services to the extent permitted by law.
2. License
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable license to install and use the Game for your own lawful, non-commercial entertainment on devices you own or control, subject to the applicable app-store usage rules. The Game is licensed, not sold. We and our licensors reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.
3. The Game and local progress
The Game is an offline-first, single-player experience. It does not currently provide a Drystone Games account, multiplayer, chat, social feed, or user-generated-content service. Game progress and settings are primarily stored locally on your device. Deleting the Game, clearing app data, losing or changing a device, save corruption, or platform backup behavior may result in permanent loss of progress. Unless a platform feature expressly says otherwise, we do not promise cloud backup, recovery, cross-device synchronization, or cross-platform transfer.
4. Coins, Gems, and cosmetic items
The Game may include “Coins,” “Gems,” cosmetic items, and other virtual content (collectively, “Virtual Items”). Coins are earned through gameplay and used for ordinary progression. Gems may be earned through limited gameplay rewards or optional rewarded ads and, if we enable the feature, may also be purchased in consumable packs through the Apple App Store or Google Play. Gems are intended only for permanent visual cosmetics and do not provide combat statistics or competitive advantage. The Game does not offer loot boxes, randomized paid rewards, gambling, subscriptions, cash-out, or transfers between players.
Virtual Items are licensed, not sold. They are personal, non-transferable, have no cash or other real-world value, cannot be redeemed or exchanged outside the Game, and do not constitute property or stored value. You may not sell, trade, gift, transfer, or exploit them. “Permanent” means recorded as unlocked in the applicable local save; it does not guarantee that the Game, a device, platform support, or any particular cosmetic will remain available indefinitely.
5. In-app purchases
If paid Gem packs are offered, the applicable store will display the product, exact Gem quantity, localized price, and applicable taxes before you authorize payment. Apple or Google—not Drystone Games—processes the payment under your store account and applicable store terms. We do not receive your complete payment-card details. Consumable packs may generally be purchased more than once.
Store rules and mandatory consumer law govern authorization, billing, cancellation, refunds, chargebacks, and payment disputes. Except where applicable law or the store requires otherwise, completed purchases of consumable Virtual Items are final and are not refundable or redeemable for money. Any statutory right you may have, including a right relating to defective or non-conforming digital content, remains unaffected.
A transaction may be pending, delayed, declined, interrupted, or temporarily displayed more than once. Once secure verification is enabled, we will grant each verified purchase once. We may correct catalog, pricing-display, technical, or fulfillment errors and may withhold or reverse Virtual Items associated with a refund, chargeback, fraudulent transaction, duplicate grant, or abuse, using measures proportionate to the issue and subject to applicable law and store requirements. Contact the store about billing or refunds and contact us about missing in-game delivery.
6. Optional rewarded advertising
The mobile Game may offer player-initiated rewarded video ads. These ads are optional. Declining or closing an ad, an ad failing to load, or an ad not completing will not block ordinary gameplay, but no advertised reward is earned unless the provider confirms completion. Rewards are intended to be granted once per completed opportunity. Ad availability, eligibility, and the type or amount of a reward may vary or be discontinued. Details about advertising data and privacy choices appear in our Privacy Policy and, where required, in the Game’s privacy choices screen.
7. Acceptable use
You must not, and must not help anyone else to:
- use the Services unlawfully, commercially, or in a way that infringes another person’s rights;
- copy, reproduce, distribute, sell, rent, sublicense, publicly perform, or commercially exploit the Services except as law expressly permits;
- reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, derive source code, modify, or create derivative works, except to the limited extent such a restriction is prohibited by law or applicable open-source licenses;
- circumvent security, purchase verification, ad-reward validation, platform rules, or technical limits;
- cheat, automate, manipulate save data or transactions, obtain Virtual Items fraudulently, or interfere with the intended operation of the Services; or
- introduce malicious code, overload systems, probe vulnerabilities without authorization, or access data or systems you are not authorized to access.
8. Ownership and third-party materials
The Services—including their software, gameplay systems, text, artwork, audio, characters, designs, names, logos, and other content—are owned by or licensed to Ioannis Kagiorgis and protected by intellectual-property and other laws. Third-party software and assets remain subject to their applicable notices and license terms. References to third-party names or marks do not imply endorsement.
If you voluntarily send us feedback or suggestions, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, and sublicensable license to use and exploit that feedback without restriction or compensation, provided this does not give us ownership of your personal data.
9. Third-party platforms and services
The Services may rely on Apple, Google, GameAnalytics, Google AdMob, hosting providers, and other third parties. Their products may be governed by separate terms and privacy policies. You must comply with applicable device, network, and store terms. We are responsible for the Game as required by law, but are not responsible for a third party’s independent service, content, outage, or conduct outside our reasonable control.
10. Updates, availability, and changes
We may provide patches, updates, or upgrades and may change balancing, rewards, content, compatibility, or features where reasonably necessary for operation, security, legal compliance, platform requirements, or improvement. Updates may be required to continue using online-dependent features. We may suspend or discontinue all or part of a Service, but will respect mandatory notice, remedy, refund, and digital-content rights that apply to you.
11. Suspension and termination
You may stop using the Services at any time. We may suspend or terminate your license or access if you materially or repeatedly breach these Terms, commit fraud or abuse, create a security or legal risk, or if a Service is discontinued. Where appropriate and reasonably practicable, we will give notice and an opportunity to remedy before termination. Upon termination, you must stop using the affected Service. Provisions that by their nature should survive—including ownership, disclaimers, liability limits, and dispute terms—will survive.
12. Disclaimers
Nothing in these Terms excludes any guarantee, warranty, remedy, or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded. Subject to that sentence and to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Services are provided “as is” and “as available.” We disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, and do not promise that the Services will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or compatible with every device.
13. Limitation of liability
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; death or personal injury caused by negligence; wilful misconduct or gross negligence where it cannot be limited; breach of obligations imposed by applicable data-protection law; or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
Subject to the preceding paragraph and to the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential loss, or for loss of profits, revenue, business, opportunity, goodwill, or data, arising out of the Services. For claims that may lawfully be limited, our aggregate liability will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us through the applicable store for the Game during the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim and (b) EUR 50. This cap does not reduce any minimum remedy required by mandatory consumer law.
14. Responsibility for unlawful conduct
To the extent permitted by law, you are responsible for losses and reasonable costs we incur as a direct result of your intentional unlawful use of the Services, fraud, or material breach of these Terms. This section does not require a consumer to indemnify us for our own conduct and does not limit any defense or protection available under mandatory law.
15. Governing law and disputes
These Terms and non-contractual disputes arising from them are governed by the laws of Greece. If you are a consumer, this choice does not deprive you of mandatory protections under the law of the country in which you habitually reside. The courts of Greece will have non-exclusive jurisdiction; as a consumer, you may also bring proceedings in any court available to you under mandatory law. Before filing a claim, please contact us and allow a reasonable opportunity to resolve it informally. Nothing here restricts your right to seek relief from a competent consumer-protection authority or court.
16. Additional Apple App Store terms
If you obtained the Game through Apple’s App Store, you and we acknowledge that these Terms are between you and us, not Apple; we, not Apple, are responsible for the Game and its content, maintenance, support, warranties, product claims, and intellectual-property claims, subject to applicable law. Your license is limited to use on Apple-branded products you own or control as permitted by the Apple Media Services Usage Rules, including use by associated accounts through Family Sharing or volume purchasing where applicable. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support.
If the Game fails to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund any purchase price for the Game; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a United States Government embargo or designated by the United States Government as supporting terrorism and are not listed on a United States Government prohibited- or restricted-party list. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.
17. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms to reflect changes to the Services, law, security needs, or business practices. We will post the revised Terms with a new effective date and provide additional notice where required. A change will not retroactively reduce rights you have already acquired unless law permits it. If you do not agree to revised Terms, you must stop using the affected Services.
18. General
If any provision is held unlawful or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a reorganization, sale, or transfer of the Services, subject to applicable law. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, applicable store terms, and any product-specific terms presented at purchase form the agreement concerning the Services.
19. Contact
Questions, complaints, support requests, and legal claims should be directed to:
Ioannis Kagiorgis, operating under the brand Drystone Games
Email: support@drystonegames.com